Tag Archives: nature

Hakone Gardens

Posted on June 8, 2022 by Suhita Shirodkar

Hakone Gardens, Saratoga. Continue reading →

Posted in california, Close to home, Everyday Sketches, reviews, supplies, tools, Uncategorized | Tagged hakone gardens, japanese garden, kakimori, nature, saratoga, sketchbook, trees, urban sketch | 5 Comments

Three Tools

Posted on June 7, 2022 by Suhita Shirodkar

Three tools I love, two I’ve used for a long time and one that’s new… Continue reading →

Posted in california, Close to home, Everyday Sketches, reviews, supplies, tools, Uncategorized | Tagged hakone gardens, kakimori, nature, sketchbook, trees, urban sketch | 2 Comments

Join me in Drawing the Beauty Around You

Posted on May 13, 2022 by Suhita Shirodkar

Draw what’s blooming around you, share it and tag it #2022inbloom Continue reading →

Posted in california, Close to home, Everyday Sketches, flowers, san jose, studies, Summer | Tagged 2022inbloom, bloom, challenge, flowers, foliage, fruit, gulmohar, nature, shilpa agashe | 3 Comments

Mustard and Wild Radish

Posted on March 11, 2022 by Suhita Shirodkar

A few weeks ago spring announced itself in the hills near home, with mustard and wild radish flowers everywhere. On the page below, an assortment of approaches: the sketch at the top of the page is brown ink and watercolor. … Continue reading →

Posted in california, Close to home, Everyday Sketches, san jose, Silicon Valley | Tagged location drawings, nature, spring, tree, urban sketch | 3 Comments

A few wild trees

Posted on November 16, 2021 by Suhita Shirodkar

For me, drawing trees is all about capturing energy, gesture and movement. Continue reading →

Posted in Close to home, Everyday Sketches, studies | Tagged location drawings, manzanita, markmaking, mohini, nature, nature drawing, oak, park, tree, tree sketch | 4 Comments

Redwoods: Three Impressions

Posted on August 3, 2020 by Suhita Shirodkar

Painting the Redwoods on the coast near Mendocino. Continue reading →

Posted in california, Paintings, Supplies and Materials, watercolor | Tagged location drawings, mendocino, nature, redwoods, tools, urbansketching, usk, watercolor | 10 Comments

Why Replicate When You Can Celebrate?

Posted on June 21, 2020 by Suhita Shirodkar

Why Replicate When You Can Celebrate? Continue reading →

Posted in Close to home, Everyday Sketches, Sketch Journal | Tagged color, face, nature, observational drawing, portrait, sketchingplaylab, texture | 4 Comments

Sketching wildflowers

Posted on March 15, 2015 by Suhita Shirodkar

Drawing outside my comfort zone today. I like to draw fast and loose. To capture an impression, often without much detail. So it was quite a challenge to walk around Guadalupe Oak Grove Park and draw some really tiny wildflowers that I wanted … Continue reading →

Posted in california, Close to home | Tagged botanical illustration, california, california poppy, nature, wildflower | 10 Comments

Inspiration and Information

Posted on December 5, 2014 by Suhita Shirodkar

I’ve often wondered what this beautiful fruit was. It grows on trees in my neighborhood park. Recently a friend mentioned ( where else, on facebook) that he harvests and eats it. It is the fruit of a Strawberry Tree, a Mediterranean shrub not … Continue reading →

Posted in Uncategorized | Tagged food, fruit, nature, sketch, strawberry, watercolor sketch | 6 Comments

Winter Beach Weekend

Posted on March 3, 2014 by Suhita Shirodkar

A winter weekend at the beach. Pismo , California. There’s the food: People line up for the fish tacos and clam chowder at Splash Cafe. They’re worth the wait. My kids and I polished off a rack of ribs at … Continue reading →

Posted in california, Travel | Tagged beach, birds, cafe, california, family, fog, food, kids, location drawings, nature, people, pigeon, pismo, pismo beach, seagull, tidepools, urban sketchers, watercolor sketch | 4 Comments